Regaining Sight

In Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, she mentioned the work of Marius Von Senden who became curious about the effect it had on people who had been born blind to receive their sight later in life. These were usually people who had been born with blinding cataracts. When cataract surgery came along, the surgery gave them sight for the first time. Contrary to what you might expect, for many, the experience was terrifying. Nothing made sense. Their entire visual field was filled what they described as random floating patches of color that made no sense.…